In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the rise of capitalism was met by bitter and intense resistance. Its establishment was only effectuated by the imposition of the factory system as a method of social control. The result was …
FE Author: John Zerzan
New York, New York
by John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977
“Amid All the Camaraderie is Much Looting this Time; Seeing the City Disappear.” —Wall Street Journal headline, July 15 The Journal went on to quote a cop on what he saw, as the great Bastille Day break-out unfolded: “People are …
But It Doesn’t Move
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 325, Spring, 1987
a review of And Yet It Moves: The Realization and Suppression of Science & Technology, by Boy Igor, 1986, 120 pp., $5, Zamisdat Press, GPO Box 1255, Gracie Station, NY NY 10028.
Objections to Councilism
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
FE Note: This is a response to “More Minneapolis Anarchy,” the letters beginning on page 15 of this issue.
Language
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 315, Winter, 1984
When Winston Smith, in Orwell’s 1984, sits down to begin the diary which he has secretly acquired and which in and of itself is a criminal possession, he is mortified to discover that he has nothing—and everything—to say, that to …
Notes on Captivity
by John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
“Few books today are forgivable. Black on the canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper, are perhaps feasible.” — R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience
Multinational Unions
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
It has never been more clear that trade unionism is ” absolutely essential to the survival as well as to the stability of world capitalism. The trend toward the consolidation of unions, their closer integration with the state, and, most …
Unionism and Taylorism
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
Tay-lor-ism n. 1. The scientific management of industrial operations. 2. The systematic reduction of work within a given industrial operation to separate, distinct, routinized tasks devoid of policy decisions. Each aspect is measured and timed for its highest efficiency. 3. …
Unions and the Nazi Labor Front
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976
Both Marxist and liberal historians have always depicted the Nazi movement as the bitter enemy of unions and the victory of German fascism as the death knell of the labor movement. A critical examination shows that, in fact, the opposite …
A Gorilla Takes On Civilization–Sort Of
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
a review of Ishmael, Daniel Quinn, 1993, Bantam/Turner, New York, 262 pp., $6.00.